[Scons-users] Intel MPI on Windows; best practices ?

[Damien]

Michael,

Ping me off-list, I have parallel MUMPS + Scotch building using SCons, 
on Windows, Linux and OS/X.

Damien

On 28/11/2012 1:20 PM, Michel Lestrade wrote:

> Hi,

>

> The problem with CMake and GNU Make is that they do not handle spaces 

> in file/directory names very well. I had an extremely hard time 

> manually forcing CMake to use the Intel MPI wrappers; the built-in 

> detect functions do not work at this time (at least not on Windows). 

> And for GNU Make, I have to wrap a lot of the paths with "" to solve 

> the pathname problems which is inconvenient.

>

> Right now, I am building the MUMPS sparse matrix solver which uses MPI 

> for parallelism. I am new at this but MPI definitely seems to be the 

> bedrock of supercomputing applications.

>

> If it were only that one project, I would just use the GNU Makefile 

> they provided but I also need to compile METIS (which uses CMake) and 

> Scotch (which has tons of dependencies on other projects) to get full 

> MUMPS functionality. It is hard to have a single sane build system for 

> the whole thing but I am hoping scons will do it. At the very least, I 

> could not find a better-recommended multi-platform build system during 

> my initial search.

>

> Thanks for the help; at least I know I am not doing anything 

> particularly stupid....

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